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Alert Diver is the dive industry’s leading publication. Featuring DAN’s core content of dive safety, research, education and medical information, each issue is a must-read reference, archived and shared by passionate scuba enthusiasts. In addition, Alert Diver showcases fascinating dive destinations and marine environmental topics through images from the world’s greatest underwater photographers and stories from the most experienced and eloquent dive journalists in the business.
Alert Diver is the dive industry’s leading publication. Featuring DAN’s core content of dive safety, research, education and medical information, each issue is a must-read reference, archived and shared by passionate scuba enthusiasts. In addition, Alert Diver showcases fascinating dive destinations and marine environmental topics through images from the world’s greatest underwater photographers and stories from the most experienced and eloquent dive journalists in the business.
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Our annual photo contest, Ocean Views, has evolved<br />
significantly this year. As we proudly continue our<br />
partnership with Nature’s Best Photography magazine<br />
(naturesbestphotography.com), Ocean Views has<br />
been integrated into the Windland Smith Rice<br />
International Awards program as a category in this<br />
prestigious photography competition that reaches<br />
millions of nature enthusiasts worldwide.<br />
As a category sponsor and judge, we welcome this<br />
opportunity to celebrate the diversity of life above,<br />
around and beneath the ocean’s surface. The Ocean<br />
Views winner and a selection of highly honored photos<br />
will be featured at an awards exhibition, opening in<br />
mid-October at the Smithsonian National Museum of<br />
Natural History in Washington, D.C.<br />
One winning image is selected in each of 10<br />
categories that represent the very best of nature<br />
photography. The portfolio presented over the following<br />
pages includes not only the winning Ocean Views image<br />
but also the universe of highly honored images that may<br />
be enlarged as exhibition-quality prints for display at<br />
the Smithsonian. Categories in the Windland Smith Rice<br />
International Awards are as follows:<br />
Wildlife<br />
Landscapes<br />
Africa<br />
Birds<br />
Ocean Views<br />
Polar Passion<br />
Outdoor Adventure<br />
Youth<br />
Conservation Story<br />
Video<br />
With literally millions of people passing through the<br />
Smithsonian each year, DAN ® , Alert Diver and Nature’s<br />
Best Photography are thrilled with the opportunity to<br />
present this eloquent vision of the magnificence of the<br />
sea and coastal environments worldwide. Only broad<br />
appreciation of the beauty and fragility of this world will<br />
inspire meaningful and lasting conservation.<br />
— Stephen Frink<br />
90 | SUMMER <strong>2017</strong>
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